BANGOR – A spirit of international cooperation permeated the stuffy atmosphere inside the Brewer Armory on Friday afternoon as a group of sweaty Scottish and American teenagers scaled a 32-foot-high climbing wall and rappelled down the other side.

“You got it, you got it,” one girl yelled to a boy struggling to find a handhold on the wall, her feet firmly planted on the ground as she guided a rope attached to the boy’s harness.

The teenagers were part of a gang of 15 cadets from the Scottish Air Training Corps and 47 cadets from the Maine Wing Civil Air Patrol participating for the first time together in a two-week training camp at the Maine Air National Guard base in Bangor. The collaboration was spearheaded by a Civil Air Patrol lieutenant and a Scottish instructor who became friends after meeting at a conference.

Next year, the Portland-based Americans hope to cross the sea and experience Scotland’s camp in Dunfermline, a city north of Edinburgh.

Friday’s trip to Brewer was one of several forays the group has made beyond the base, including trips to Millinocket and Bar Harbor on a Cessna 182 piloted by the cadets.

The American version of camp is much stricter than Scotland’s, especially in the context of the relationship between staff and cadets, but the Scots have learned to adapt, cadet Matt Smith, 16, said Friday.

“It’s a lot more disciplined,” Smith said, his words heavy with a Scottish accent and his blond hair damp with sweat.

The cadets, ranging in age from 12 to 19, train in areas including leadership, teamwork and air space education.

The day begins at 5 a.m. and ends at 11 p.m., so the cadets catch up on extra sleep when they can, Smith said. Fire alarms in the middle of the night at their quarters on base aren’t uncommon, he said.

“A couple of nights I woke up in the parade square,” Smith said.

“I love the Scottish people,” bubbly Jordan Hopkins, a 13-year-old cadet from Calais, said after sidling up next to Smith. “Without these guys, it would have been worse.”

Hopkins admitted she broke down and cried once during the camp, overwhelmed with the attention several senior officers were giving her during an exercise.

“You’ll never see Scots cry,” Smith said, smiling.

That’s what she loves about her Scottish counterparts, Hopkins said.

“They are just the funniest people I have ever met,” she said. “They’re so crazy.”

The staff members get in a ribbing or two as well. After a color guard ceremony on Thursday at the Air Guard base, American Col. Craig Treadwell teased Adult Warrant Officer John Harper about his countrymen’s sensitivity to mosquito bites.

Scotland’s mosquitoes are much more fierce, Harper countered.

“They carry knives,” the Scot said.

“I’ll wear DEET,” Treadwell answered, referring to his plans to travel to Scotland next year.

“You’ll need more than DEET,” Harper said. “Bulletproof armor.”

Despite the good-natured ribbing, the Scots and Americans have formed new friendships and eagerly look forward to meeting up again next year, Harper said.

“The methods might be different, the uniforms might be different, but the end result is the same,” he said.